Seriously, stop biting your fingernails over the election results, have a nightcap, climb into bed, and cry yourself to sleep a little.
John Kitzhaber waltzed into the Grand Ballroom in the bowels of the Hilton to a screaming crowd of fans and told them, essentially, GO TO BED.
“This probably won’t be decided until some time before the sun comes up,” said Kitz, wearing his signature tight cowboy jeans. “I’m very optimistic. and let me tell you why. We’ve known all along that this would be a close race. We’ve known all along it would come down to the Multnomah County vote. We’re down two points statewide, but almost half the Multnomah County vote isn’t in yet.”
“Jeff Merkley was in exactly the same place at 11 o’clock on election night,” continued Kitz. “And he woke up the next morning as a United States Senator. I expect the same thing is going to happen this evening.
Even though it’s a superclose race, Kitzhaber will be resting easier tonight than Duds.
Here’s the hopeful math that puts Kitz in the lead: There’s 400,000 ballots left in the state to count, a third of them are in Multnomah County. Judging by the results so far, our county is going 70 percent for Kitz, which means by the end of tonight he’ll likely be ahead.
Jim Moore says Kitzhaber has a very good chance of winning! (fingers crossed)
“But hanging out there is Multnomah County. Kitzhaber has been winning in the heavily Democratic area by about a 70-30 percent ration, actually a bit more than that.
About 147,000 votes have been counted in Multnomah County. As of 4:30 p.m. this afternoon around 230,000 votes had been delivered to the elections office. By the time we get the ballot totals from 8:00 p.m., it wouldn’t surprise me if there were a total of 250,000-270,000 ballots.
70 percent of those numbers gives around another 56,000 to 75,000 votes to Kitzhaber. “
YEA!
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Wait – I thought crying was BAAAD?! The previous post about Boehner told me crybabies are BAAAD.
If you check the ABC polling by county and do the math, even if you give extra votes to Dud, Kitz already has it at 2am.
I wasn’t ready for a big social services cut so some rich guy could buy a few extra 4-wheelers when there’s 20% unemployment out there. Thank you, Multnomah.